Kylie Jenner Reveals a Striking Pastel Blue Hair Color for New Year’s Eve - Vogue

The best method of stealing the scene this New Year's Eve? A makeover that doubles as a visual mic drop on the past twelve months and sets the bar for the first days of 2019 ahead, naturally. This bit of holiday beauty schooling comes courtesy of Kylie Jenner, who took to Instagram last night to debut a new stop on her whiplash-inducing journey through the color spectrum, her mane razed to a clavicle sweeping length and transformed with a simultaneously soft and striking ice blue color.

Teamed with an on-brand makeup moment—eyes finisher with kittenish flicks of liner, skin dusted in glowing bronzer, lips painted in a pastel blush-nude—the reveal felt both irreverent and somehow natural; Jenner is, after all, a master of the chameleonic mane. The year has seen the beauty mogul gradually cooling down, switching elongated raven lengths for an abbreviated choppy bob, followed by a Rapunzelian platinum that gave way to bright silvery white. And, considering that Lady Gaga opted for a similar shade for the opening of her “Enigma” residency in Las Vegas a few days back, Jenner's true blue pitch seems the sure foreshadowing of a burgeoning trend.

Time will tell if the optomistic dye job will make the leap into 2019. But it does beg the question: will sparkle suffice tonight, or is a more bold maneuver required? You be the judge.